In The Studio by Ben Myers

from his great blog "I, Axl - An American Dream": http://iaxl.blogspot.com

“You know if they dropped the fucking bomb on the planet and just levelled the place and you were, like, the only survivor and you’d be walking along and at first you’d just see basic destruction, like collapsed houses and sparking electrical cables and shit, but as you keep on walking you’d see, like bodies, scattered here and there, and maybe they don’t look superficially damaged but they’re dead alright, and you keep walking and you see smoking shoes lying in the street, and bodies, all bald and burnt and shit, like charred down one side or something, and everything would be quiet except for the low whistle of a warm nuclear wind blowing in from the east, and then you start seeing more bodies, piles of them, flesh ripped from their bones, their eyeballs incinerated in their sockets, their hands twisted and distorted, skulls grimacing, rictus, the strangely sweet smell of burning flesh everywhere, the sky dashed with red hues, everything dead and useless, gone and hollow, and you just stand there, grabbing at your face, screaming, screaming screaming into a void of nothingness.OK? Well, that’s exactly how I want your drum fill to sound, bro.”

Ben Myers' new novel RICHARD is out in the UK on October 1st through Picador.